For a brilliant study of this question in the context of Amerindians in Colombia, especially with regard to challenges of human rights, see Julia Suarez Krabbe, "At the Pace of Cassiopeia Being, Nonbeing, Human Rights and Development" (Roskilde, Denmark: Roskilde University School of Intercultural Studies Doctoral Thesis, 2011).

Just as Woolf contrasts the prosaic and the poetic, being (heightened moments) and nonbeing (the everyday), and inwardness with a "materialist style" (conventional realism), so she contrasts trauma and the habitual, the latter "the place where shock is absorbed.

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